These eight charts show why climate change matters right now – CNBC

A girl sits on a cot as she crosses a flooded street at Sohbatpur in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province in Pakistan on October 4, 2022. Fida Hussain | Afp | Getty Images “The climate time bomb is ticking,” António…

Why climate doomerism is wrong – Vox.com

We environmentalists spend our lives thinking about ways the world will end. There’s nowhere that I see doomer culture more vocal than on my home turf. With leading activists like Roger Hallam, co-founder of the popular climate protest movement Extinction…

Adam McKay: Global Warming Is Not Being Treated Like an Emergency – Jacobin magazine

Adam McKay: Global Warming Is Not Being Treated Like an Emergency By Adam McKay Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay writes in Jacobin about climate change and the institutional blindness and warped incentives that should scare the crap out of…

Wildfires turn world’s largest forests into carbon emitters

The world’s largest forests, such as in northern Canada and Russia’s Siberia, may soon release more carbon than they historically stored.

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The 50 States of Climate Change – Outside Online – Outside

Since the 1700s, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 40 percent, largely from greenhouse gasses released by people burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. As a result, the climate is becoming more…

Smoke from Australian bushfires depleted ozone layer by up to 5% in 2020, study finds

Particles in bushfire smoke can activate molecules that destroy the ozone layer, according to new research that suggests future ozone recovery may be delayed by increasingly intense and frequent fires. A study published in the journal Nature has found that…

With global warming of just 1.2°C, why has the weather gotten so extreme? – Yale Climate Connections

My cellphone chirps with a text message. I glance down. “Oh no!” I think. “It’s from Bob.” Fellow meteorologist Bob Henson has been my partner for many years in extreme weather blogging, and I always read his text messages with…

Why we can’t solve the climate crisis without schools — and teachers – Los Angeles Times

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When wildfire smoke blocked the sun and turned the sky orange above the San…

How Climate Change Plagues Ordinary Americans – Mother Jones – Mother Jones

A state employee rescues a family from flooding during 2019’s Tropical Depression Imelda near Beaumont, Texas. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department via AP This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What goes through…

Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas? | Rebecca Solnit

If fossil fuel use and impact had suddenly appeared overnight, their catastrophic poisonousness and destructiveness would be obvious. But they have so incrementally become part of everyday life nearly everywhere on Earth that those impacts are largely accepted or ignored…